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A 23-year-old New Hampshire man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for shooting at a Daytona Beach police officer during a traffic stop last year, a judge ruled Thursday. Marvin Jones enter no contest pleas for attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and fleeing and eluding. He will have to serve at least 20 years of his sentence before possibly being granted parole. On April 28, 2012, a witness called police to report that Jones was waving a gun in the parking lot of the Daytona Beach International Airport.

Attorneys for the man found guilty of murder in the stabbing death of a 25-year-old downtown Orlando bar bouncer filed paperwork this week seeking a lenient sentence. Craig Sandhaus, 29, was convicted of second-degree murder at trial in October. He faces up to life in prison in Milton Torres' 2011 death outside The Lodge, a bar on Orange Avenue. Sentencing is set for Friday, and state minimum-sentence guidelines would put Sandhaus behind bars for more than a decade, but his attorneys are asking Circuit Judge Alan Apte to consider a lesser penalty.

A Lake Mary businessman was sentenced to five years in federal prison for running a roughly $3 million real estate scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Authorities said James Olivos used his company, Omni Capital Management and Omni Capital Development, to run his scheme, which targeted pricey homes in Seminole County. From 2003 to 2007, Olivos persuaded sellers of upscale homes to inflate their listed sales price by falsely claiming the extra money was necessary to make home improvements.

A 60-year-old Volusia County man who left his hospital bed to shoot his brother was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison. Ricardo "Ricky" Antonio Ramirez was convicted in August of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony that carried a minimum-mandatory 25-year sentence. Ramirez was a patient at Florida Hospital Orlando Jan. 13, 2012 when he drove home, got into an argument with his brother, James Ramirez, retrieved a gun from his bedroom and shot him in the right thigh.

Willie James Henderson kept souvenirs after raping a New Smyrna Beach-area woman who paid him $20 to mow her lawn. Henderson stole three pictures of her on his way out of her house after he forced his way in, sexually assaulted her and left her place splattered with blood. Henderson, 50, was sentenced this week to life in prison for the attack on April 27, 2012 — days after the woman met the man she knew as "Willie" and hiring him to do some work around her house. Henderson left his cellphone behind.

A DeLeon Springs man who robbed a Sanford bank with a fake bomb at the drive-through and then crashed into police during the getaway was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Monday. Matthew Anthony Cosimini and Robert Gordon Shaw each admitted in Orlando federal court they held up a Regions Bank on State Road 46 in April. The men made a fake bomb using a flashlight and electrical tape, and also wrote a demand note claiming there was a bomb inside the bank, authorities said.

A 28-year-old Orlando woman was sentenced to just under a year in jail this week, after pleading no contest to a manslaughter charge in a crash that killed a motorcyclist last year. Yetta Maritza Ospina was sentenced to 51 weeks in jail, plus 10 years probation and 250 hours of commmunity service, records show. Her driver's license was suspended indefinitely. Ospina was arrested after her Toyota Corolla collided with 25-year-old motorcyclist Peter Vergari on John Young Parkway near Oak Ridge Road in the early hours of June 24, 2012.

A Daytona Beach man is heading to federal prison for five years and six months after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography. A website reported 40-year-old Carlos Manuel Cruz to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children after the man engaged in distributing child pornography, said Department of Justice spokesman William Daniels in a statement. "This individual has been held accountable for his actions; he will spend the next five years behind bars - a place where he can no longer victimize innocent children," said Susan McCormick, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations Tampa.

Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry's signature was forged on a pair of fraudulent orders that freed two Orlando-area killers - both lifers - in an elaborate paperwork prison break that has sent shockwaves across Florida. Authorities are hunting for Charles Bernard Walker and Joseph Ivan Jenkins, both 34, after they left the Franklin Correctional Institution in the Panhandle within two weeks of each other using fabricated documents authorizing their release. Ninth Judicial Circuit Court officials said the phony paperwork contains the forged signatures of at least two judges and members of the State Attorney's Office - including State Attorney Jeff Ashton.

An $800 bank robbery will cost Kevin Lee Cotterman 15 years of his life. Cotterman, 42, of Apopka pleaded no contest in January to robbing a Palm Coast Bank of America and was sentenced Tuesday in Flagler County to 15 years in prison. He was convicted of robbery and grand theft and ordered to pay the bank $805 in restitution. A teller told investigators that Cotterman on May 17, 2012 passed a note handwritten in black marker implying that he had a gun and demanding money, court documents show.